Eurostatistics — Data for short-term economic analysis — shows the evolution of the economic activity in the European Union, euro area and Member States. This monthly review gives a synthetic picture of the macroeconomic situation in the recent past. It is based on Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEIs), complemented by some business cycle indicators. [+]

Quality report on European statistics on international trade in goods — 2013-2016 data — 2019 edition

This report provides users with a tool to assess the quality of the international trade in goods statistics published by Eurostat. The data quality can be evaluated against indicators covering the following components: relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, comparability and coherence. The purpose of the report is not to rank EU Member States from best to worst for each quality indicator, but to provide users with information on the different factors affecting statistics so that they can appraise the data quality for themselves. [+]

Public authorities working in the financial sphere have shown an increasing interest for big data. On the supply side, the amount of information at hand has boomed, reflecting not only the internet revolution, but also all the various initiatives launched after the financial crisis of 2007-09 to make a better use of existing sources of information – including, but not only, digital sources – and start new data collections, often on a very large scale.

As a result, “Financial Big Data” are quite specific. They primarily consist of the very large though relatively well-structured data sets derived from administrative and financial activities, for which new private data sources can play a major role.

Accessing these data can provide many opportunities for public authorities like central banks. But specific challenges also arise when handling these data and using them to support policy. In practice, this calls for being both pragmatic – ie starting with small pilot projects when exploring the financial big data universe – and ambitious – ie taking this opportunity to revisit existing information systems in a holistic way.

These various dilemma can be illustrated by two data collections of particular importance for central banks, one on derivatives transactions and one on the issuance of debt securities. [+]

Compilers guide on European statistics on international trade in goods by enterprise characteristics — 2019 edition

The main objective of this Compilers Guide is to provide a comprehensive overview of the compilation of indicators on trade in goods by enterprise characteristics (TEC). It aims to serve as a methodological handbook providing the necessary definitions, instructions and methodological guidance for the regular compilation of TEC statistics. [+]

This handbook has been prepared as a practical tool at the disposal of compilers of ESA 2010-based national and regional accounts. Its objective is to translate the voluntary EU recommendations on data revisions into specific practices ensuring accurate, reliable, consistent and comparable data. The handbook provides good practices for routine and benchmark revisions as well as for non-scheduled revisions. [+]

The purpose of this quality report is to provide the users of the European Union Labour Market Statistics with a tool for assessing the quality of these statistics which are based on the European Union Labour Force Survey. It provides a brief description of the survey and a summary of the main quality indicators which are: relevance, accuracy, accessibility and clarity, timeliness and punctuality, comparability, and coherence. The quality report is updated annually. [+]

This publication provides a detailed view on the territorial typologies at grid, local and regional (NUTS) level, used by Eurostat particularly for disseminating data aggregated by cities, coastal areas or border regions, for example. It helps data suppliers of subnational statistics to ensure coherency and comparability, and end-users to understand and interpret the wide range of official statistics available at a subnational level for the different areas and regions of the EU. [+]

Eurostatistics — Data for short-term economic analysis — shows the evolution of the economic activity in the European Union, euro area and Member States. This monthly review gives a synthetic picture of the macroeconomic situation in the recent past. It is based on Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEIs), complemented by some business cycle indicators. [+]

The quarterly series 'Basic figures on the EU' presents the freshest Eurostat data on a small number of key indicators in the economic, social and environmental fields. In an effort to give readers a better overview of the data available in the Eurostat database, each edition of Basic figures on the EU introduces a set of three alternating indicators. The same content is available in a compact printed leaflet. [+]

EURONA. Eurostat Review on National Accounts and Macroeconomic Indicators — Issue No 2/2018

EURONA is an open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journal dedicated to National Accounts and Macroeconomic Indicators. EURONA aims at providing a platform for researchers, scholars, producers and users of macroeconomic statistics to exchange their research findings. This second issue of 2018 includes articles on integrated economic accounting standards, inclusion of illegal economic activities, estimating trade flows without asymmetries and the interpolation of Purchasing Power Parities. [+]

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) Methodological Manual represents a comprehensive overview of methods that are used in the compilation process for the HICP. The HICP provides the official measure of consumer price inflation in the euro area and the EU. The manual intends to be a practical guide to all steps necessary to produce an HICP and is thus useful for statisticians who are new to the field of price statistics and statistical offices aiming to set up a similar inflation measure. Users of the HICP, such as businesses, policy-makers and researchers may also find this manual useful to help them understand and interpret HICP data. Subjects covered include the HICP concepts, sampling and price collection procedures, methods for quality adjustment, index calculation and many other. [+]

This document presents Eurostat’s assessment of the quality of the national and regional accounts transmitted in the year 2017 by the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, and information on Eurostat’s publications of European aggregates. The quality report contains the second assessment of results since the start of data transmission according to the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) on 1 September 2014. In general, data sent in 2017 were broadly in line with the ESS quality standards and the ESA 2010 Regulation. Member States have been able to comply with the new data requirements and methodology, while the process of adapting national data compilation systems will continue until 2020. [+]

Measurement of regional supply of banking services against the background of digitization

The publication deals with the evaluation of the regional supply of financial services. Digitisation and the associated reduction of branches are taken into account. The previous measurement approach (branches per square kilometre or per inhabitant) will be critically examined and an extended measurement approach will be presented. This approach addresses demographic, topographical, settlement structural and infrastructural (Internet) aspects. It has been used by Conrad et al. (2018) for public savings banks and cooperative banks in Germany at a small-scale level. A comparison of the supply level within Germany was carried out. But a comparison with the results for different countries could not be made. This paper therefore discusses how the new approach can be applied to other countries of the European Union. It will be shown that the transmission is only partially successful because important data is missing. The data set problems are discussed in this paper and finally the results of the measurement and comparison of the supply situation of six European countries - based on the available data - are presented. [+]

This handbook of geospatial statistics — based on a point-based statistical information system — aims at promoting, developing and consolidating the use of specific statistical methods available to NSIs. The handbook has been compiled by INSEE with funding from EUROSTAT. It starts off by describing geolocalised data, measuring the importance of spatial effects as well as taking the spatial effects into account, while closing with advanced techniques for graph portioning and confidentiality. It is expected that the practical examples and their implementation in R will make the statistical production process more efficient. [+]

The ‘Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics’ book presents a selection of topical data. Information is presented for the European Union and its Member States, and is supplemented (when available) with data for EFTA countries and for the candidate countries and potential candidate countries to the European Union. This publication is divided into eight chapters, providing facts and figures about farms, farmers, farm production and prices, the performance of the agricultural sector, trade in agricultural goods, and forestry and fishery activities. [+]

The quarterly series 'Basic figures on the EU' presents the freshest Eurostat data on a small number of key indicators in the economic, social and environmental fields. In an effort to give readers a better overview of the data available in the Eurostat database, each edition of Basic figures on the EU introduces a set of three alternating indicators. The same content is available in a compact printed leaflet. [+]

In official statistics there is an increasing demand for indicators at a higher frequency than have traditionally been observed. Eurostat and the European Statistical System (ESS) developed these guidelines to help data producers derive high frequency data (e.g. quarterly or monthly) from low frequency data (e.g. annual) and to address related temporal and accounting constraints. These guidelines are aimed at those involved in the production and analysis of infra-annual European statistics (compiled by Eurostat) and corresponding country specific official statistics compiled by National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). They have been conceived both for experts and beginners. In order to rank the different methods, each issue is discussed following a structure with three parts: a description (free text presenting the problem), a list of options (various possibilities to deal with the specific issue) and a list of ranked alternatives (A,B,C). Namely: [+]

Eurostatistics — Data for short-term economic analysis — shows the evolution of the economic activity in the European Union, euro area and Member States. This monthly review gives a synthetic picture of the macroeconomic situation in the recent past. It is based on Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEIs), complemented by some business cycle indicators. [+]

Labour Force Survey in the EU, candidate and EFTA countries — MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIONAL SURVEYS, 2017

The present report describes the main characteristics of the Labour Force Surveys (LFS) in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as three Candidate Countries and three EFTA countries in 2017. All these countries provide Eurostat with LFS micro-data for publication. The aim of this report is to provide users with the means to accurately interpret the LFS results by providing information regarding the technical features of the Labour Force Surveys carried out in these countries. [+]

This report evaluates the 2017 EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) ad-hoc module on self-employment. The main objective of this report is to describe the implementation of the survey and to assess the quality of the dataset. The report presents some main results and recommendations on how to improve the module for future repetitions. [+]